SECRETARIAT OF THE KERALA LEGISLATURE

NOTIFICATION

No. 391/Legn. 2/2012/Leg.

Dated, Thiruvananthapuram, 24th January 2012.

The Kerala High Court Services (Determination of Retirement Age)

Amendment Bill, 2012 together with the Statement of Object and Reasons, the

Financial Memorandum is published, under Rule 69 of the Rules of Procedure

and Conduct of Business in the Kerala Legislative Assembly.

P. K. MURALEEDHARAN,

Secretary-in-charge,

Legislative Assembly.

Kerala Gazette No. 6 dated 7th February 2012.

PART II

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Thirteenth Kerala Legislative Assembly

Bill No. 68

THE KERALA HIGH COURT SERVICES (DETERMINATION OF

RETIREMENT AGE) AMENDMENT BILL, 2012

A

BILL

to amend the Kerala High Court Services (Determination of Retirement Age)

Act, 2008.

Preamble.—WHEREAS, it is expedient to amend the Kerala High Court

Services (Determination of Retirement Age) Act, 2008 for the purposes hereinafter

appearing;

BE it enacted in the Sixty-second Year of the Republic of India,

as follows:—

1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Kerala

High Court Services (Determination of Retirement Age) Amendment Act, 2012.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

2. Amendment of section 2.—In section 2 of the Kerala High Court Services

(Determination of Retirement Age) Act, 2008 (34 of 2008), for the words “last day

of the month”, the words “last day of the financial year” shall be substituted.

STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS

As per G. O. (P) No. 154/2009/Fin. dated 24th April, 2009 all Government

employees and teachers attained the age of 55 years during the course of the

Financial Year was allowed continue in service till the end of the financial year.

In order to give statutory validity to the above Order, Government amended rule 60

of Part I of the Kerala Service Rules. The Registrar General, High Court of

Kerala has requested the Government to extend the above said benefit to

the employees of the High Court. For this purpose an executive order will not

suffice and therefore an amendment is to be made in the Kerala High Court

Services (Determination of Retirement Age) Act, 2008. Government have

therefore decided to amend section 2 of the said Act, so as to extend the above

said benefit to the employees and officers of High Court also.

The Bill is intended for the above purpose.

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FINANCIAL MEMORANDUM

Clause 2 of the Bill intends to amend the Kerala High Court Services

(Determination of Retirement Age) Act, 2008 to extend the benefit of unification

of the date of retirement as 31st March of the year as sanctioned to the

Government employees and teachers as per G. O. (P) No. 154/2009/Fin. dated

24th April, 2009 to the Officers and Servants of the High Court of Kerala. This

involves expenditure from the Consolidated Fund of the State and the actual

expenditure that may have to be incurred on this account cannot be estimated

at this stage due to its recurring nature and variation from year to year.

OOMMEN CHANDY.